Isaiah 30:4

For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

For his - Judah's (cf. ).

Princes were at Zoan - are already arrived there on their errand to Pharaoh (see ).

And his ambassadors came to Hanes - are come there. West of the Nile, in central Egypt: Egyptian Hnes; the Greek Heracleopolis; perhaps the Anysis of Herodotus (2: 137); according to Grotius, Tahpanhes contracted (Jeremiah 43:7); the seat of a reigning prince at the time, as was Zoan; hence, the Jewish ambassadors go to both.